A bureau à gradin is an antique
desk
A desk or bureau is a piece of furniture with a flat table (furniture), table-style work surface used in a school, office, home or the like for academic, professional or domestic activities such as reading (activity), reading, writing, or using ...
form resembling a
writing table with, in addition, one or several tiers of small drawers and pigeonholes built on part of the desktop surface. Usually the drawers and pigeonholes directly face the user, but they can also surround three sides of the desk, as is the case for the
Carlton house desk form. A small, portable version is a
bonheur du jour.
In some cases the bureau à gradin has a second tier of drawers under the work surface, and thus looks like an advanced form of the
bureau Mazarin or like a non-enclosed version of the
cylinder desk
The cylinder desk is a desk that resembles a Bureau Mazarin or a writing table equipped with small stacked shelves in front of the user's main work surface, and a revolving cylinder part that comes down to hide and lock up the working papers whe ...
, or the
tambour desk
A tambour desk is a desk with desktop-based drawers and pigeonholes, in a way resembling bureau à gradin. The small drawers and nooks are covered, when required, by reeded or slatted shutters, ''tambours'', which usually retract in the two sid ...
.
See also
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List of desk forms and types
This is a list of different types and forms of desks.
Desk forms and types
* Armoire desk
* Bargueño desk
* Bench desk
* Bible box
* Bonheur du jour
* Bureau à gradin
* Bureau brisé
* Bureau capucin
* Bureau Mazarin
*''Bureau plat'', see W ...
References
*Souchal, Genevieve. ''French Eighteenth Century Furniture''. Translated by Simon Watson Taylor. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1963.
*De Reyniès, Nicole. '' Le Mobilier Domestique: Vocabulaire Typologique''. Paris: Ministère de la Culture et de La Communication, 1987.
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